University of Utah engineers develop computerized camera without optics that instead uses an ordinary window as the lens.

Once in the territory of science fiction, "nanobots" are closer than ever to becoming a reality, with possible applications in medicine, manufacturing, robotics, and fluidics

Maple trees are best known for their maple syrup and lovely fall foliage. But it turns out that the beauty of those leaves could be skin-deep

Why do individuals carrying identical gene mutations for a disease end up having varying severity or symptoms of the disease?

A platinum-gold alloy developed by a team from Sandia National Laboratories is 100 times more durable than high-strength steel

Salivary proteins could be part of a feedback loop that influences how food tastes to people—and by extension, what foods they're willing to eat

“High risk, high reward” is the kind of discovery Dr. Garry Grubbs seeks with a new experiment designed to rapidly identify the atomic structure of chiral molecules widely used in pharmaceutical drugs

Effects of protein composition and concentration detailed in a new study from the Journal of Dairy Science

Although immunotherapy is seen as a very promising treatment for cancer, currently only 20 to 30 percent of patients respond positively

Hastings Center Report, co-edited by UCSF bioethicist, outlines ethics and policy recommendations on genome-wide sequencing of newborns